A Grammar of Unua

The book presents a description of Unua, one of two dialects of Unua-Pangkumu, an Oceanic language of Malakula Island, Vanuatu. Unua has about 700 speakers who are bilinguals using Unua in local interactions and using the national language, Bislama, non-locally, as well as in local public and religious settings.
The description is based on material collected in the field from speakers of different age-groups in the five Unua villages. The data corpus includes a substantial body of material: contemporary translations of the New Testament gospels; audio-recorded transcribed and glossed texts; and elicited material collected with a range of speakers. The analysis includes comparisons with other Malakula languages and is both of typological and historical-comparative interest. The data documentation is substantial and detailed.

About the author

Elizabeth Pearce, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Pearce
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2014
• EAN: 9781614517658
• ISBN: 978-1-61451-765-8
• No. of pages: 586
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 44 mm x 230 mm
• Weight: 990 g
• Illustrations: 5 b/w ill., 2 b/w ld
• Series: Pacific Linguistics; Pacific Linguistics [Pl]; Pacific Linguistics; Pacific Linguistics [PL]; ISSN
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies